Welcome Home to Wildkind Outdoors
Your leadership is welcome here as collectively it is time to live with ALIVENESS
Wildkind Outdoors offers nature-based educational courses including wilderness survival, rewilding retreats, leadership development and self-reliance training.
From Wilderness survival and preparedness strategies that cultivate resilience and self-reliance, to rewilding workshops and nature immersion retreats that restore profound holistic health, Founder Jess Caldwell curates outdoor adventures and transformational experiences for youth, teens and adults of all ages. The Way of the Wildkind is to energize a growing community of heart-centered humans who value ALIVENESS. Nature is our greatest ally as we cultivate a profound reverence for life, a sensitivity towards our connection to everything and compassionate leadership for a thriving future.
Founder Jess Caldwell is an ALIVENESS practitioner, Wilderness First Responder and nature-based skills educator. She believes that our collective efforts of personal rewilding will provide essential navigation through these uncertain times of global change. Through seasonal alignment practices, nature immersion training, and sensory development, individuals will experience greater reverence for our symbiotic relationship with all living things.


Subscribe below to join a growing community of nature lovers, life learners, outdoor explorers and health optimizers who value connection, direct living skills, food sovereignty and self-reliance as the new self-care.















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Founder and Total Wildkind
Jess has always taken the “Road Less Traveled”. She has experienced the transformative power of getting hands-on and dirty with the elements and embraces the cultivation of joyful and adventurous living. With a multi-disciplinary approach to optimal health, Jess welcomes you on this unique path of self discovery.
As a nature lover, Wildernes Survival Instructor and ALIVENESS Coach, Jess founded Wildkindkind Outdoors with the desire to learn, share and grow in community with others who feel drawn to expand and challenge themselves into a more integrated partnership with the natural world.